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beadsland

@beadsland@disabled.social

Maker & abolitionist; critic of pandemic apologism & the ableism of the Left.

Muckraking dataviz & generativist #lumpentheory.

Intricate words fulfill me:
Anticipate jargon here.

Ace enby aphant WP in #NYC.

they/them/gonzo/whatever

Masks are empathy fashion.
Own it—make it yours.

If you would throw me and mine to the wolves so to claim victory over those wolves, you can take your Democratic National Chamberlain 🤡 ass to someone else's mentions.

#CovidCautious
#Disability #CripTheory 🗡🥄

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inquiline, to california
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"According to some of the more outlandish theories, other survivors of sunken Lemuria turned to the sea, and became whales, dolphins, and mermaids. Others have walked among humans as shamans and prophets ever since, explaining why many religions are so similar. Sadly, there is no word on whether some Lemurians actually transformed into lemurs"

(Doing some regularly-scheduled posting, for a change)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/lost-continent-lemuria

beadsland,
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@inquiline lemorale

inquiline, to random
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The postings will continue until morale improves

(sorry, everyone)

beadsland,
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@inquiline

The moral will continue until post things improve.

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@inquiline

Oh, the items are fine and good.

It's the things that need improving.

Hence the posts.

This being the moral of our story.

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If #Northwestern can issue this statement--when AFAIK they are basically owned by General Dynamics, or something to that effect--it really puts the lie to other institutions' administrators' inability to do anything other than roll around in their own shit while calling the cops. Pardon my French.

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24626716/agreement-april-29-2024.pdf

#Divest #HigherEd

beadsland,
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@inquiline

cop (v.)

"to seize, to catch, capture or arrest as a prisoner," 1704, northern British dialect, of uncertain origin; perhaps ultimately from French caper "seize, to take"...

beadsland, to random
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Listening in, as my roommate participates in virtual seder hosted by Jewish Voices for Peace, as organizers, each introducing themselves by describing their physical appearance for blind participants, reminisce about struggling only years ago to figure out virtual community, as context for acknowledgement that covid is not over, that it still is not safe, then turn the mic over to the sign language interpreters, to likewise describe and introduce themselves.

This is what solidarity sounds like.

beadsland, to random
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Anti-homeless ordinances being used against student protests, you say?

Instruments of being employed to suppress dissent, you say?

Whodda thunk?

—unlike categorical class—is about relations to power as a matter of praxis, a matter of habit, a matter of habitus.

classposture is a lumpen relation: to camp in protest is to inhabit relations not by nor postures claimed by workerists, but as the unaccommodated, the nuisance.

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Rutgers long ago established "Tent State" to refer to a multi-campus movement consisting of annual protest camp actions.

Nonetheless, in light of LAPD escalation tonight, it seems not impossible that the hashtag will begin circulating in a very different, more sinister sense…

In the not very far future.

LESO/1033 and Cop City have been about preparing for this very moment.

The fifth estate will escalate further. It's what they're for.

https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112328565309509999

inquiline, to random
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Really not impressed with reply guys shitting on students protesting today, thanks John Mastodon

beadsland,
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@inquiline Gone are the days when all one had was a reflective pool.

beadsland,
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@inquiline

Without referencing the originated of this quote (as have recently learned, as is often the case, they're not the bastion of praxis they present as), the following seems apropos:

"Conservatives, typically, just defend old progressive ideas."

They were discussing self-identified conservatives.

Myself, find this an exemplary characterization of anyone who defends old progressive ideas to the exclusion of current struggle & praxis.

Is folk like Dreary that make this reading so apt.

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Racists ain't "stupid".

They just like power.

Racists don't do "stupid" things.

They just like power.

Intellectual ableism is also a power trip.

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@strypey @Bel_tamtu

Yeah, "sloppy word choice of people letting off steam" is a common argument used when caught in bigotry.

"I'm not a racist. I was just angry. That doesn't represent who I really am." Etc.

That's just it. It does reflect one's biases, when one is stressed enough—as in, when one would let of steam—to speak without filter. Those words came from somewhere.

"Acting against their own interest" is also problematic, as it presumes authority on what another person's interest are.

beadsland, to random
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A reminder, as always, that fascism ain't about hate.

Fascism is about control.

Hate is just an inescapably powerful means of control.

Thus fascists leverage hate to its utmost. It is a means.

This is how people who have been the targets of fascism can nonetheless, themselves, be fascist.

This is how institutions ostensibly aimed at checking fascism, can nonetheless, operationally, be fascist.

beadsland, to random
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Was encouraging to see greater faculty solidarity with student protesters following police action.

Now encouraging to see news of student protests for other grievances, in parallel with pro-Palestine protests.

News that those protests are also being met with force? Yep, that's the way solidarity on a mass scale happens.

Those in power escalate their overreaction so much that disparate groups come together in common cause.

The more protests, for the more reasons, the more police are stressed.

inquiline, to random
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Selective law and order reply-guy, one of my least favorite kinds

beadsland,
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@inquiline

Which of course prompts the question... as to your most favorite kinds?

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@inquiline

A court of sycophants and jesters, then.

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Today's random wikipedia page:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_languages

stemming from recent thoughts I've had wondering what makes a programming language more "internationalizable". I consider myself very grateful that English is my first language and thus the barrier to entry and progression is much lower, but what about the rest of the world?

beadsland,
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@andrew_chou Am thinking of BASIC on 8-bit machines. The keywords were entered and displayed as words, but stored as interpreter bytecode. This made efficient use of limited RAM.

There's no reason a modern interpreted bytecode language couldn't use keyword localization tables. The challenge would be variable and function names. There'd have to be introspection within the language for mapping new localizations, on an ad hoc basis, to code snippets used in instruction & libraries for development.

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Listening to live feed from WKCR.

Encampment members are being split up based on whether they are willing to be arrested or will relocate to a safer location.

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Organizers at Columbia have put out a general call (earlier today) to New York City residents to show up at Columbia to protect students from threatened mobilization of National Guard.

Heavy riot police presence now.

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For those who wish to listen in:

https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/

Student reporters are going 24/7 to keep folk informed as to events on the ground.

beadsland, to random
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What's staggering about NASA getting Voyager 1 to resume sending data...

Is that we don't write software like that anymore.

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@peter

I mean, yes, but a Turing machine is a Turing machine is a Turing machine.

We've got operating systems, and below that BIOS, below that microcode, all of which amount to sequences of instructions.

Last of those even today can be stored in a writeable control store. Conceptually not functionally different than the CMOS volatile memory of Voyager's FDS.

Now, in consumer hardware, being able to easily route around WCS would be bad. Yet Intel still pushed microcode updates to fix Spectre.

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@peter

Also, as anyone who has spent hours banging their head against a keyboard, only to finally give up for the day and then suddenly figure out the problem in the shower knows...

Sometimes being forced to step away from the computer and look at the results later is actually an aid to problem solving.

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TFW someone credits a movement pointedly for nothing in particular for later protesters setting up an encampment for something specific.

Meanwhile, history:

Photo: An aerial view of Poor People's Campaign tents, called Resurrection City, in Washington, May 1968. AP Photo/Barry Thumma
Photo: A tipi and the American Indian Movement (AIM) flag in front of the Washington Monument (Source: Wikimedia Commons) Members of 80 Indigenous tribes marched from Alcatraz Island to Washington, D.C., to set up camp in 1978.
Photo: Encampment of second Tractorcade protest (first protest was in 1978), organized by the American Agricultural Movement, "wherein thousands of farmers drove their tractors to Washington, D.C. in protest" of farm forclosures. On February 5, 1979, farmers arrived on tractors and held another Tractorcade protest. They occupied the National Mall for several weeks. American University Digital Research Archive

beadsland,
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Real kicker:

Zuccotti Park and what followed were inspired by Arab Spring, Spanish Indignados movement and (wait for it) the student movement at University of California, two years prior, with slogan 'Occupy Everything, Demand Nothing'.

So not only did Occupy not invent camps as protest. They didn't even come up with pointed lack of demands on their own.

But again, let's be sure to say Columbia's present day encampment—which again is making very specific demands—is an accomplishment of 2011.

Photo: Aerial view of ccupation encampment at Pearl Roundabout, Manama, Bahrain, March 4, 2011. Uploaded to ResearcGate by Heghnar Watenpaugh.
Photo: View over the Madrid protest camp at Puerta del Sol. From Ben Sutherland's flickr account, May 29, 2011.
Photo: University of California Berkeley students and faculty protest against fee increases and budget cuts. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty From Guardian article, Sep 24, 2009.

beadsland,
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@inquiline

Tent State University?

A movement started in 2003 in a distant New Brunswick, a whole unimaginable 45 minute car ride from Morningside Heights?

That has spread as far as Glassboro, California, Wisconsin, Missouri, Massachusetts, Connecticut, SUNY and Sussex (checks notes) England?

Surely students organizers of Columbia couldn't possibly have ever heard of such protest actions!

Folk who study as their occupation (ahem) only know about protest that they see on TV, obviously. /s

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@inquiline

To be clear, folk told me of past occupation actions at NYU early in my freshman year of 1992, and there were folk in my graduate school cohort at The New School who in 2010 couldn't shut up about past occupations there.

And the most myself ever organized was a student club for people who wanted personal web pages.

Given how connected the student organizers have met now and again seem to be, they're much more knowledgeable about protest than anyone just getting media ever will be.

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